'Dirty Girls'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
The funny part is that after Andrews died, the books written in her name didn't stop with the incest fetish. You would think it was just the author beating her personal horse, but apparently it's a whole niche market.
And she died pretty early in the run. I'm pretty sure that more books have been published after her death than before it.
Amanda Quick is rather racy, although I would have read them at that age. I really liked Catherine Coulter although, again, mildly racy. She actually got less racy after the 70's/early 80's run of "ORAL SEX IS THE BEST". I mean, not that it isn't but for awile there (Midsummer Magic) it was a little scary. Also, a bit of non-consensual sex. At that age, I also remember liking Julie Garwood and Fern Michaels. I do/did have a particular liking for romances wherein the protagonists have to get married for some reason and then fall n love. In fact, if anyone has any recs...
Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
well, maybe gave is the wrong word. But I was never forbidden to read anything in the house, and they had these shiny covers....
When I was somewhere between 7th and 9th grade I read a few Amanda Quick books that were Mom's. I don't think she gave them to me so much as I picked them up and started reading.
I remember being very annoyed with her use of the phrase "all of a sudden".
Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
Gotta love the...presence of an ellipsis...in a post about...Barbara...and her breathless little...heroines.
So I'm 2/3 of the way through Set This House in Order, and now I understand why it won the Tiptree. Heh.
Sneaky.
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. Finally at the end, stuff happens. The lack of action through the book didn't really bother me so much. The charcters are are well developed or well described at least. One thing I really liked about it was how the narrative seamlessly moves from one time and place to another time and place and it was never jarring to me. I wonder if that was just me. My bookclub discusses it on Wednesday, so I will find out.
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday. Finally! The book was assigned months ago. I'm going to have to review all the notes I took while reading it. (Mostly consisting of "Huh?!" and "EW")
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
Ditto and ditto. I wondered why I couldn't remember anything about the book, and then I saw the bookmark I left, a couple of chapters in. Oops.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday.
SUH-WEET! I want to start an all VC Andrews bookclub.
t runs to B'cry
t just kidding